2023-09-21 13:12:00
”It’s hellish. These residents, of rue GJ Martin and rue du Duc, are living hell,” denounces mayor Benoît Cerexhe (Les Engagés). “It is essential to find a solution.” The representative recalls that the hopper located on rue du Duc was intended to be “temporary” at the time. “But people have been living this hell for 40 years.”
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In addition, the configuration of this hopper prevents access to larger and more modern trams on lines 39 and 44. This explains in particular the presence of old vehicles on the long line to Tervuren.
It’s all about Montgomery
The passage of trams in these Sanpétrusian streets is intrinsically linked to the renovation of the Montgomery underground metro station, under the roundabout. A file often mentioned, and often postponed indefinitely.
As part of the vast upcoming redevelopment of Avenue de Tervueren, the redevelopment of Montgomery station and the disappearance of the rue du Duc rails have resurfaced this fall. Related projects, but with a very different temporality. If the avenue could be redeveloped in 2025, the renovation of Montgomery station is not planned in the short term. Reason for timing with other projects, schedule, studies, budget and human resources, we are told.
“We want deadlines”
But, at the commune, Benoît Cerexhe bangs his fist on the table and conditions the avenue project on the file of Montgomery station and GJ Martin-Duc streets. “We have waited long enough. Today, we want plans and we want deadlines.”
Behind the scenes, at the Region, the mayor’s position is considered unbearable, whispers a speaker on the file, who sees in this condition a new way of slowing down the Tervueren project before the elections.
Monday, September 11, the vast project to redesign the avenue between Parc du Cinquantenaire and Square Léopold II was, as a reminder, presented to local residents in a stormy atmosphere. Plans which were the subject of numerous standoffs between Minister Groen and the mayors MR and Les Engagés.
It is now planned, after a painful compromise between the two levels of power, to keep two lanes in the center twice, to maintain the lateral ones but changing the directions, to create unidirectional and separate cycle paths on either side of the the axis and plant several rows of trees, while retaining 98% of the current parking spaces.
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